Outputs (8)

‘We work for the Devil’: oil extraction, kinship and the fantasy of time on the offshore frontier (2023)
Journal Article
Destrée, P. (2023). ‘We work for the Devil’: oil extraction, kinship and the fantasy of time on the offshore frontier. Critique of Anthropology, 43(1), 24-43. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308275x231156713

In the offshore oil industry of Takoradi, Ghana, white expatriate workers describe oil extraction as both ‘the work of the Devil’ and a ‘labour of love’. While companies strive to produce the offshore as a timeless and spaceless fantasy of ‘frictionl... Read More about ‘We work for the Devil’: oil extraction, kinship and the fantasy of time on the offshore frontier.

Loloum, Tristan, Simone Abram, and Nathalie Ortar (eds.): Ethnographies of Power. A Political Anthropology of Energy. New York: Berghahn Books, 2021. 202 pp. ISBN 978-1-78920-979-2. (EASA, 42) Price: $ 120.00 (2022)
Journal Article
Destrée, P. (2022). Loloum, Tristan, Simone Abram, and Nathalie Ortar (eds.): Ethnographies of Power. A Political Anthropology of Energy. New York: Berghahn Books, 2021. 202 pp. ISBN 978-1-78920-979-2. (EASA, 42) Price: $ 120.00. Anthropos, 117(2), 563-565. https://doi.org/10.5771/0257-9774-2022-2-563

Mains, Daniel. 2019. Under Construction: Technologies of Development in Ur-ban Ethiopia. Durham, London: Duke University Press. 240 pp. Pb.: $25.95. ISBN: 9781478005377. (2021)
Journal Article
Destrée, P. (2021). Mains, Daniel. 2019. Under Construction: Technologies of Development in Ur-ban Ethiopia. Durham, London: Duke University Press. 240 pp. Pb.: $25.95. ISBN: 9781478005377. Anthropological notebooks, 27(2), S1-S3. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5812139

Contentious connections: infrastructure, dignity, and collective life in Accra, Ghana (2021)
Journal Article
Destrée, P. (2022). Contentious connections: infrastructure, dignity, and collective life in Accra, Ghana. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 28(1), 92-113. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.13654

Infrastructural systems have emerged as productive ethnographic sites for analysing political subjectivities and rationalities. Through the case of shared electricity and prepaid meters in the compound housing system of Accra, Ghana, I suggest that i... Read More about Contentious connections: infrastructure, dignity, and collective life in Accra, Ghana.

The struggle for capacity: a historical ethnography of toxicology in Senegal (2021)
Journal Article
Destrée, P. The struggle for capacity: a historical ethnography of toxicology in Senegal

Book Review, Tousignant, Noémi. 2018. Edges of Exposure: Toxicology and the problem of capacity in postcolonial Senegal. Durham, London: Duke University Press.

Solar for the Few: Stranded Renewables and Green Enclaves in Ghana (2021)
Digital Artefact
Destrée, P. (in press). Solar for the Few: Stranded Renewables and Green Enclaves in Ghana. [[Media unknown]]

Hoffman, Danny. 2017. Monrovia Modern: urban form and political imagination in Liberia. Duke University Press. (2018)
Journal Article
Destrée, P. (online). Hoffman, Danny. 2017. Monrovia Modern: urban form and political imagination in Liberia. Duke University Press

Accra: Beauty Blue (2017)
Digital Artefact
Destrée, P. (in press). Accra: Beauty Blue. [[Media unknown]]